Illustrations - Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgements - A Typical Newspaper of the Era: The St. Joseph Valley Register - Journalism and Politics: New York and the 1860 Election - Horace Greeley's New York Tribune - News Spin: Fredericksburg, Stones River, and Chancellorsville - Journalistic Practice and Technological Change - A Battle of Content: Party Press vs. Informative Press - Classifieds of the Era: The Case of Ads about Runaway Slaves - Abolitionism and the Fight to End Slavery - Beyond the War: Everyday News in Wartime - The Naval War Mediated in Newspapers and Magazines - Press Suppression, North and South - Three Newspapers that Supported the President - The International Dimension of Civil War Journalism - Abraham Lincoln's Legacy Emergent - Reconstruction Journalism: Two Examples - Conclusion: Renewing the History of Journalism in the Civil War Era - Appendix: Journalism and Abraham Lincoln - Selected Bibliography - Index - About the Authors.